Putin's nuclear threats are taken seriously. But if he decides to take such a step, there will be a response, because the United States also has a nuclear button. This was stated by the President of Poland Andrzej Duda, reports Polsat News.

 "The United States is a major nuclear power, the largest military power in the world, and the fact that the US takes this Russian threat seriously is also a threat to Russia," Duda said.

 According to him, if Moscow breaks all taboos and uses even tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine, which does not have nuclear weapons and today defends its territory using only conventional weapons, then it can wait for a "response".

 "Putin and his entourage know that the use of any, even a tactical, nuclear charge against a state that does not have nuclear weapons will put these gentlemen outside of any world politics," Duda said.

 The President of Poland emphasized that this would mean not only a tribunal, responsibility for committed crimes, but also simply the exclusion of the Kremlin leadership and all of Russia from the civilized world.